The Republican journal., 1887-05-26
Generalities.

A plague of catcrpilar> is reported, in South
Carolina.
The forest lire on Cape Cod spread over So
nn acres of land
Great Britain has formally assumed posses
sion of Iu!iiIa:ul.
A Frenrlnan h;l, invented a telephone which
costs but ~ IL cents.
Li>zi bcGucathcd Mozart's piano and IIay,ln's
baton TO the city Of Vienna.
The Boston Customs oilicerS haze discovered
several cases of eNtcn>iNcun cundcrvaluationS.
Atareccnl type-writing contest in New York,
Miss VI. {. Grant wrote 81 words in I'm. rs.
John l.. >od,iar,I the lecturer. will spend
the SIMMER in Spain and anon" the Pyrcn-
ees.
. Claus >prcrklc>, the Frisco sugar King. in
tends 10 purchase 4 lot and build Il villa in
Paris.
An important convention Of fruit growers at
Dover, Del. resolved 10 dispense with he mid
,llcinrli.
The Pope has decided that McGls M must 20
to Rome within forty days or suffer cx-ronimll-
nication.
The Orleans Princes have appealed TO the
Council OF Stale against their expulsion from
the army.
The Senior crew won the Harvard class race
Frit!a, on the Charles River. TIN. Soplomorcs
Were second.
\ British Commissioner has arrived in Mo-
rocco to negotiate commercial treaty with
that country.
Cuban bandits are active. Their latest cap
ture. for whose release they demanded $4,000,
made his escape.
Mrs. Grants receipts from the sale of the
Generals Memoirs up to the present time
amount to S3oi ,i59.
The deIaultng Cashier Tayyart of Philad,-
phia has been traced to Paris. \ l:j-year-old
girl clopcd with him.
Two Mexican towns We're wrecked bv the
earthquake in Mexico. but the loss of life was
less than first reported.
Secretary Whtncy's country place. '.GraSs-
lands" cost him $40 700, and he has spent S20-
600 more in fitting it up.
Mrs. u. $. Grant i, recovering from severe
attack of diphthcria which threatened her life.
She is now out of danger.
The Amecr'S troops have fought another bat
lie with the Gllzas. putin. them to fight.
KILN" and woundin. 4 large Number.
the Improvement of the Mississippi River ut
Nirksburg has been entirely successful.
Buffalo Bill took in &35, 600 at his first pcr-
fornance in London. Financially speaking, it
is better to be Buffalo Bill than to be President.
The Hon. John Randolph Tucker, LIZ d., of
Virginia. will deliver the Grafton before the
graduating class of the Yale Law School june
2S.
According TO the Louisiana Sunday law, IL
fuor stores. cigar and barber shops must he
closed on that day. but theatres may remain
open.
Ihe British steamship Gunarc has been sunk
IN the Gulf of Mexico. Her passengers and
crew We're rescued, and have arrived at New
! Orleans.
Islands. in the South Pacific of the massacre
Of another party of Wesleyan missionaries by
the natives.
The Philadelphia Cooperative Hat Company
are making three distinct brands of hats. Two
Will he called the 'licnry George" and "Dr.
Mc(iiynn.'
Three masked burglars at Harrington, Nd,
| after Il brisk fight tied farmer and his wife
to bcdposts and robbed the house of over SD,
900 in money.
A package containing diamonds valued ut
81, 900 was stolen from the coat pocket of Hen
| ry Quinn while he was playing billiards at the
Casino in Boston.
Natural gas has been struck at Fort Scott,
Kan, at depth of $50 feet. The flow is fabu-
lous. 1t is the strongest well yet obtained by
more than double.
The Michigan House. by vote of 53 to 81.
passed the High License bill. The general tax
is placed at 500, and on wholesale and retail
| establishments it is $500.
The Pope has written long autograph let
ter to President Grevy, thanking him for his
jubilee gifts and eXhOrting France to adopt a
policy of religious federation and peace.
The knights of Labor in Cincinnati are soon
| to erect fine building, as about eighty assem-
blies there are paying rent. the sum expended
in this way aggregating 5000 annually.
| In the new convention between the Porte
and Great Britain it is agreed that the period
of the British occupation of Egypt shall be not
! less than two and not more than five years.
| At trial at Toulon recently the new mel
mite shells with which the French Government
| Is experimenting failed to pierce the iron clad
The l5elliqueuse is vessel Of the old type and
was built in 1865.
| genuine case Of leprOsy has been discover
cd in FreebOrn county, MINI. The leper is a
woman over 40 years old, who has had eight
| children and is soon to become a mother again.
| The disease has reached the stage in which
numbness pervades the cxtremities. The wO-
mans aunt also had the disease.